Top 7 most famous people born in 1648

Henri de Massue Earl of Galway
a French Huguenot soldier and diplomat who was influential in the English service in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.

Apr 26

Peter II of Portugal
Regent and King of Portugal and the Algarves.
He was sometimes known as o Pacífico, "the Pacific"

Aug 9

Johann Michael Bach
a German composer of the Baroque period.
He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as well as father-in-law of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as the "Gehrener Bach" to distinguish him from the "Wuppertaler Bach", Johann Michael Bach

Oct 3

Élisabeth Sophie Chéron
remembered today primarily as a French painter, but she was acclaimed in her lifetime as a gifted poet, musician, artist, and academicienne.

Oct 13

Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans
born a Princess of France and was the Duchess of Savoy as the first wife of Charles Emmanuel She was a first cousin of Louis XIV as well of her husband.
She was the shortest Savoyard consort dying at the age of fifteen, childless

Dec 20

Tommaso Ceva
an Italian Jesuit mathematician from Milan.
He was the brother of Giovanni Ceva

Dec 23

Robert Barclay
a Scottish Quaker, one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Religious Society of Friends and a member of the Clan Barclay.
He was also governor of the East Jersey colony in North America through most of the 1680s, although he himself never resided in the colony

Top 7 most famous people died in 1648

Christian IV of Denmark
a monarch of the House of Oldenburg who ruled as King of Denmark-Norway from 1588 to 1648.
His reign of more than 59 years is the longest of all Danish monarchs

Mar 12

Tirso de Molina
a Spanish Baroque dramatist, a poet and a Roman Catholic monk.

May 20

Władysław IV Vasa
a Polish and Swedish prince from the House of Vasa.
He reigned as King of Poland from 8 November 1632 to his death in 1648

Aug 18

Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire
the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1640 until 1648.
He was born in Istanbul the son of Ahmed I by Valide Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Anastasia. He was later called Ibrahim the Mad by twentieth century historians due to his reputed mental condition

Joseph Calasanz
Sch.P.
also known as Joseph Calasanctius and Josephus a Matre Dei, was a Spanish Catholic priest, educator and the founder of the Pious Schools, providing free education to the sons of the poor, and the Religious Order that ran them, commonly known as the Piarists. He is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church

Sep 1

Marin Mersenne
a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics".
Mersenne was "the center of the world of science and mathematics during the first half of the 1600s."